{"id":1674,"date":"2017-03-25T10:16:24","date_gmt":"2017-03-25T10:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myvitaminpacks.com\/mvp\/?p=1674"},"modified":"2022-12-05T07:58:18","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T07:58:18","slug":"ways-pets-make-us-happy-and-improve-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.personanutrition.com\/blog\/ways-pets-make-us-happy-and-improve-health\/","title":{"rendered":"For The Love of Dogs and Cats: Why Our Pets Make Us Healthy &#038; Happy"},"content":{"rendered":"Did you know that pets make us healthier and happier?\u00a0 According to Psychology Today, pets provide the much-needed love, comfort and social support we need to thrive and that the support we receive through our pets is meaningful and without judgment. The benefits of owning a pet are great and include: boosting owners\u2019 self-esteem, increasing owners\u2019 physical fitness, decreased loneliness, increased conscientiousness, increased social activity and \u201coutgoing-ness\u201d and decreased general fear and anxiety.\u00a0 Pets also offer just as much or more \u201cmeaningful\u201d support than friends and family members do.\u00a0 Most pet owners report feeling closer and more in-tune with their pets than with their human family members.\u00a0 This can do with the judgments human support is riddled with and the fact that, in general, human support is poor.\u00a0 Pet owners also feel a better sense of fulfillment, more connection to the meaning of their existence, experience less depression, and less stress.The studies conducted and published in Psychology Today concluded that persons who own pets are healthier and happier than individuals who do not own pets and that their connection to their pets is indeed what increases their health and happiness!\u00a0 Pets are not a replacement for medical care or for practicing healthy habits, but pets are definitely a wonderful prescription for remedying stress and loneliness and for increasing pure joy!\u00a0 Pets are the best friends with the most amazing benefits. I hope you have a beloved pet and that your day will be filled with the love they give to you and the love you give to them.\u00a0 If you do not have a pet, perhaps this is the perfect season to adopt one.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that pets make us healthier and happier?\u00a0 According to Psychology Today, pets provide the much-needed love, comfort and social support we need to thrive and that the support we receive through our pets is meaningful","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":14131,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[680],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nervous-system"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.personanutrition.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.personanutrition.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.personanutrition.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.personanutrition.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.personanutrition.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1674"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.personanutrition.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14133,"href":"https:\/\/www.personanutrition.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1674\/revisions\/14133"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.personanutrition.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.personanutrition.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.personanutrition.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.personanutrition.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}